 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a Coke And now Claudia I heard it. I suppose I'm to answer it Talker here. Howdy, ma'am. Howdy. Well, ma'am. She's here. Who's here? Good precious. You almost cared the life out of me. Oh, it wasn't me. I said nary word. That was a cow Of course, there's the cow. I know it was the cow But when you ask your doorbell, you don't expect to find a cow on your threshold and be bellowed out of countenance There's just somebody at the door Sounded like the bellowing ball of passion. It isn't a bull, is it? No, no, ma'am She ain't a bull and I can prove it. It's a it's a lady calling David. Maybe you better come on down here and see her No, no, no, she can't come in here. Hold your math. You hold her. This is mr. Warrie, ma'am. Hold it She's your right friendly cow, ma'am, right friendly She'll just make herself just one of the family. I'm the front parlor. I hope Well, well, well, look who we have here. Howdy, son. Howdy, Mr. Norton Your man Fritz dropped by Matthews on his way to town this morning Said us how your bond was finished just today and there was no reason why we shouldn't bring majesty here over to you No, there's a lady here selling dairy products Majesty cow, she's talking about you You'll be the dairy arrangements the Norton's have made Yeah Mrs. Norton until majesty freshens up in the week or so. She's also fresh Tell her nature provides but in her own good time You watch out or she'll try and come in the power Back up back up your she varmint. Good day. Get off my toes Mama, I'd like you to meet. I know the new cow. You ain't been formally introduced ma'am This is long matter majesty smoky smile. How do you do or should one Curtsy before majesty wouldn't be no less than her do. She's a champion. She is. Yep, Danbury fair Yeah, I bring along her ribbons and metals David I thought you and Claudia were just buying a cow and didn't realize he were acquiring a personage all evidence It she'd be a personage. She'd be by stores Restless gambas out of great radiance cow one of the greatest cows of the breed Professor Johnson at Bob Johnson up to the college says Bob he says this year cow is as fine a cow as he's ever seen I must tell her you talk as proud and possessive about this cow as if she'd have been yours and not mr. Warren's Well, why wouldn't I tutor hard this year majesty cow is the pride and adornment to Fairfield County and to the state of Connecticut She's a kind of cow makes a man proud to be a farmer anyhow Matthew's too modest a man to talk her up Tell him about a record as a two-year-old Jerry. I'll tell him could write a book about this cow Don't know if the might be a lot better than some of the trash and dribble and mushy love stories get rich Well, how about taking her back to the barn and installing her a new course. Good idea. Good idea That's why I wanted to bring her over here myself first now. They sort of ease her into a new surround That's a good idea of course if she's lonely we could always invite her into the parlour She almost barged in this morning. Anyway, don't you do it, ma'am? Give an animal a foot and she'll take a nail you let her come in once then you'll spoil it You'll always want to be in we'll remember that mr. Tucker had calf one winner a nurse in the kitchen Growed up. We had to dang this time keeping her out got herself a taste for apple pie I My sister struck she did there was no more apple pies until I broke the cow her habit as you have to be firm with I didn't realize there was so much to keeping a cow. Look Claudia and David I'll go back to the house and stay with Bobby until Fritz and Bertha get back Fine. You got yourself fixed up, Mr. Norton. Yeah, sure is a nice pie. Oh, there ain't no finer in town I I overseed her fixing. Yeah, I hear it tell you got yourself some mail order Extensions and fancy drinking bowl never patent automatic salt box How gets hankering for salt all she's got to do was what and there's the salt block right to hang your rapper tongue around Yeah, I'll I'll open the door for you Well, I think yes, I'll be you'll be what mr. I'll be dumbfounded when I get around to catch my breath. No, sir There ain't no car wouldn't be happy in a home like this. Well, it's sort of scientific, but it's it isn't fancy You know the the state college ain't ain't no one with no one with that It's a nice cabin pen and for stanchions in the room for a lot more. Oh, we're only gonna keep one car, Mr. That's what you think mr. Norton's far-sighted man I Knew a couple young marriage got the cells of three-room house cause it was going to have their selves only one baby and and They had the shelves 11 whole her the young No, far-sighted man builds to accommodate the future. I suppose if majesty had a calf happer What a heifer that's a female woman calf. Oh Well, if majesty has a heaver right That's what I said if majesty has a heifer calf We probably keep her but we never keep more than two cows I'm not forgetting that the two will have cows and not forgetting to my little Alligari of the family with 11 children Well, 11 is a good round number. I'll lay you a wager the day comes young David Norton looks at his self and says Here I am a man with a double life Oh, what a double life. I got me a profession of architecture Got me a herd of cows house divided leech on happiness. Come on boss. You get through that door and And somebody else will be building the building son. You'll be a farmer. Come on cow and push from your head Matthew She doesn't seem to want to go in Critters be critters of habit. We'll be here Strange place and she's cozy the place is nice enough for nice nice man I'm just different and got to think things through these cows do and cook cows think slow Do you um, you don't suppose she expects to be carried over the threshold like a new brothel cows can be the most Honorary cantankerous critters will never mind be Patience does it trouble is a man ain't got as much time to be patient with is a cow My my par my par would have give her a twist and should be through that door like a shot give her a what? You grab the cows tail Aim the critter and then you twist it and you're where you ought to be, but it must hurt Oh, no, don't hurt all just the cow don't like it. So she goes somewhere else where she's aimed Sounds very cruel. No. No taint cruel taint cruel tall I'm the last man is would be cruel to a critter. Hey, you just hold him. So and Stand aside Matthew Just give him a little Did you twist magic tape? Did did I what? Now Matt push the tail. She stamped beat it all over me and dropped my foot Suppose we say she got a sudden idea Look at that. She's standing in her stall as contented as if she'd always been there close her stanchion son Of course he changes her mind and gets out Yeah Let me settle down mr. Norton for an hour or two We'll all go away leave her let her get used to things. I think you'd hate giving her up, Mr One town now they've got it just for this don't pay to squander any emotions I'm in just something to buy and sell. Yeah, only a fool gets sentimental about an animal. Come on. Let's get off and leave her Yeah Got a lead in heart to Jared. No, you left it over the stanchion Here I'll get it. No, don't bother son. Yeah, you won't go ahead I'll just step back and get it. All right. We'll wait for you Matthew Suppose when you raise a lot of animals you can't afford to get attached to You see I found you nice home The man likes cars and you'll teach him a lot about good ones It's hard to cut a big block of new England granite without Getting a soft spot in it. That's very true true an understanding observation son The old man's just standing there a patina cow Yeah, now he's messing his head against her head You don't eat Of course just with ordinary animals manager fool to get his feelings tangled up with them, but cows is different No, and pigs pigs pigs is different I Miss Norton miss Norton Got to be getting back from a farm. I've got work to do Funny thing a hay must be dusty sort of took my throat up and gotten my eyes I feel a little choked up too. Mr. Warren. I'll walk along with you Matt. You wouldn't keep the company I'll try to take good care of majesty mr. Warren, maybe we'll raise some Jersey cows It'll make you glad and proud that you let us have magister as our first he'll be a good hand son I wouldn't have sold it to you. Well, good. Bye. You'll be seeing me Bye Couldn't have been more upset if he'd sent a child of his out into the world There's a pretty soft spot no Jared Tucker to Walking home with Warren to keep him company if you want gentleness and a man pick a strong and a tough one She's lonely Look, maybe maybe we better go back and see her What are you smiling at nothing? Why are you looking at me like that? I'm just looking at a strong man and a very sweet one Come on. Let's go back and hold majesty's hand I Shopping can be a bore or an interesting adventure. It depends largely on how you feel One good way to keep yourself in the adventure frame of mind is to stop at the Coca-Cola cooler between times You'll find coke around the corner from anywhere ready to help you shop refreshed Well, I see you and mr. Warren got the Norton's new cow installed in their barn Yep, get Matthew quite a twins to say goodbye to that cow come the part in the moment He hated to see her leave his farm. It was a right nice thing of you to walk along with him Oh sucks close nothing men got feelings too son. Hey, did you hear tell if the Norton's are driving into city tomorrow? Well, I understand they are I've a mind to hit your rod with you got business in the big city Jared And I got that I got sounds important. Oh stop nosing is important son It's personal and I aim to keep it personal. I like you son, but I think you're a blabbermouth I have a feeling what I tell you gets blabbed all over the country what I got to do in the city I wouldn't tell no living solar wouldn't know sounds mysterious Well, good luck to whatever it is and I'll be in town tomorrow myself So I may be seeing you and I'll be a pleasure son be a pleasure so long now so long Jared Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is Joe King saying or of wire and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of Coca-Cola For Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere The parts of Jared Tucker and Matthew Warren are played by Cameron Andrews and Stuart Macintosh This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney Now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola